Jesus said this in John 10:30 (Amplified), "I and the Father are One."
We've studied the will of God, through His Word and Jesus' earthly ministry. Jesus stated many times, that "He and the Father are One." Jesus never did anything that wasn't the Father's will, but we continually and mistakenly try conflating our Heavenly Father as being the One Who brings trials, troubles, sickness, disease and destruction on His family.
The only way to know the will of God, is by watching Jesus during His earthly ministry. If Jesus did something, then God does it and if Jesus doesn't do something, then God doesn't do it either. I challenge you to go through the New Testament and find any place where Jesus made anyone sick, crippled, diseased, distressed or messed up. Jesus told His followers in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy." Jesus went on to say that, "I came that you may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
How could we have ever put God in the role of the thief? Religion has done just that, though, reversed the role of God and the thief. Our faith in God is based on our ability to trust Him at His Word. If we don't know whether God is our problem or the Answer, then we have a problem of mistrusting Him. I recently visited a Christian brother who was in the hospital for the second time, when he told me God was responsible for his being there and that God was trying to teach him something. I responded by telling him that, "If you don't find out what the lesson was and learn it soon, then this is going to kill you." We try making God look like a "poor Teacher" or we're just "stupid people." Why would anyone who loves God and wishes to do what's right, be so ignorant and disobedient that God would have to kill His children, destroy our health, and steal from them? I thought Jesus said, "The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy."
If you believe God is the One making you sick, then how can you have faith and believe Him for healing you? This is exactly the type of person spoken about in James 1:6-8 (Amplified) which says, "Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting), for the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out to sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord. For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides."
The Church and God's family is still trying to "believe" what Jesus came to deliver to us from our Heavenly Father. We continue arguing over such things as being righteous, healed, purified, justified, consecrated and sanctified and all the things God has already given us, by Grace in Christ Jesus. This is in direct opposition to what God's Word says about God's family. Abraham's righteous was "imputed" to him, because of his faith. Our righteousness was born into us by Jesus, when He completed His work. Now, everyone who has been born of God, is made to be righteous with His righteousness.
Romans 1:17 (Amplified) tells us, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith (disclosed by the way of faith, that arouses to more faith), as it is written. The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith." Our righteousness, our justification and our relationship with our Heavenly Father are all based upon our faith, in what Jesus did for and to us. This is the righteousness that God ascribes or counts as our righteousness. When we stand in God's Face, declaring ourselves to be "unrighteous and unworthy," we're basically saying that, "Jesus wasn't enough to make us what God ascribes us to be." Paul says in Romans 4:16 (Amplified), "Therefore, inheriting the Promise is the outcome of faith, and depends entirely on faith, in order that it might be given by an act of Grace (unmerited favor) to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants."
Righteousness, sanctification, justification and favor with God, are all ours in Jesus Christ. Paul continues in Romans 5:1-2,9-10 (Amplified) saying, "Therefore, since we are justified, acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God THROUGH FAITH, let us grasp the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Through Him also we have our access, entrance, introduction by faith into this Grace, state of God's favor in which we firmly and safely stand. And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the Glory of God."
Verses 9-10 continue, "Therefore, since we are NOW justified, acquitted, made righteous and brought into right relationship with God by Christ's Blood, how much more certain is it that we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more certain now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved, daily delivered, from sin's dominion through His Resurrection Life."
This is God's will for His family. Saying that "we're not righteous, not justified, not reconciled, not acquitted and not in right standing with Him" is actually going against God's will. This might sound boastful to someone who hasn't believed the Gospel, but this is what the Father has said about us and done for those who have believed in His Son Jesus Christ. All these things are given by Grace, but must be accepted by faith. When we don't accept these things, by faith in God's Grace, we're placed back to the place of trying to become righteous, acquitted, justified and sanctified by our own works. This is enmity to God.
Much "faith teaching" has fallen on deaf ears or has been dismissed altogether. In Ephesians 2:8 (Amplified) the Holy Spirit reveals that Grace comes by faith. Thus, it says, "For it is by free Grace (God's unmerited favor), that you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation, through your faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves (of your own doing, it came not through your own striving), but it is the Gift of God." Your salvation came by believing in and having faith in God's Grace. So too, do your righteousness, justification, acquittal, reconciliation and sanctification come by faith in His Grace.
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